Capitol Notes Archive

MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 22, 2020 — The oddest session of the Alabama Legislature in recent memory, if ever, adjourned on Monday. Disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, more than half of the actual working days of the session were conducted in a State House closed ...Read More

May 8, 2020 – Legislators returned to Montgomery on May 4 with an eye toward completing the 2020 Regular Session, but their arrival to the capital city felt somewhat unusual. Because maintaining social distancing guidelines is nearly impossible in the State House, many legislators ...Read More

Legislative leaders this week provided important updates on the schedule for the remainder of the Alabama Legislature’s 2020 Regular Session. As a reminder, legislators left Montgomery on March 12 for a planned spring break period, with representatives scheduled to return to the State House ...Read More

As predicted in last week’s edition, the association’s top 2020 legislative priority, the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act, unanimously passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday morning. The final vote was 99-0. Bill sponsor Rep. Chris Blackshear (R-Phenix City) did a masterful job of explaining ...Read More

The association’s top legislative priority, the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act, was in line to be on the floor of the House as well as the floor of the Senate on Thursday, but both chambers adjourned before getting to the bills. Even though they did ...Read More

During the third week of the 2020 Regular Session, the association’s top legislative priority, the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act, advanced out of the House Financial Services and Senate Banking and Insurance Committees on Wednesday. Legislators on each committee asked productive, incisive questions about the ...Read More

The second week of the session saw the introduction of the centerpiece of the Alabama Bankers Association’s 2020 legislative agenda: The Elderly and Vulnerable Adult Financial Exploitation Prevention Act. Sponsored in the House by Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Chris Blackshear (R-Phenix City) and ...Read More

Legislators returned to Montgomery last Tuesday for the start of the 2020 Regular Session. When representatives and senators arrived in the capital last year, they were laser-focused on “Rebuild Alabama,” legislation that increased the gasoline tax and allocated new revenue to transportation projects. But ...Read More

The 2020 Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature begins tomorrow at noon. This is the second regular session in the current four-year term for Alabama’s 140 legislators. Though representatives and senators return to Montgomery years away from their own re-election, the atmosphere remains somewhat ...Read More

The 2019 Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature ended on May 31. The first regular session of this legislature’s four-year term, and indeed the very first session for many newly-elected legislators, was punctuated with many more “big-ticket” items than might normally be expected. Throughout ...Read More